Dress-form



W. VOGLER.

(No Model.)

DRESS FORM.

Patented Aug. 13, 1889..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM 'VOGLER, on SOMERVILLE, rmssnormsnrrs.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,771, dated August13, 1889.

Application filed May 14, 1889. Serial No. 310,756. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM VOGLER, of Somerville, county of Middlesex,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Dress-Forms, ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention is intended as an improvement upon that described inUnited States application No. 283,746, filed August 25, 1888.

In the dress-form to be herein described the wings, preferably of wire,are connected with arms, a series of which are held at a certaindistance apart by means of a carriage,which carriage is shown as maderadially adjustable toward and from the standard of the dress form bymeans of a grooved cam-plate having preferably a single spiral orscroll-like groove; but instead the said cam-plate may have severalgrooves, or be made after the fashion of what is called a snail-cam; butthe spiral groove affords more accurate adjustment and enables the wingsto better retain and remain in their adjusted position when a dress ison the form. The carriages referred to receive the arms of the wings andkeep them separated. These carriages have studs or pins which enter thegroove or grooves of the cam-plate, and co-operating with each of thegrooved cams used and the said car riages is a slotted cap-plate through"which the said studs or pins are extended, to thus enable thecap-plates to serve as a guide for the carriages in their radialmovements. A shoe interposed between the cam and coverplate and fast onthe said stud or pin serves to keep the said studs or pins in thegrooves of the cam-plate, the said shoes aiding in keeping the saidstuds or pins in uprightposition.

My invention in dress-forms consists, essentially, of a standard, agrooved. camplate thereon, -an independent slotted cap-plate, a seriesof carriages having pins or studs, and shoes to be actuated by the'saidgrooved cam, combined with a series of arms arranged in groups andhaving depending wings attached thereto, the said armsbeing connectedwith the said carriages to operate, substantially as will be described;also, in a dress-form, the combination of the followinginstrumentalities, viz: A standard, two grooved cam-plates thereon, twoindependent slotted cap-plates co-operating therewith, a series ofcarriages, and connected pins or studs acted upon by one of the-saidcams, a series of wings hav ing arms connected to and made movable withthe said carriage, the bust or holder section connected with the saidwings, a series of neck-rods, and a series of neck-carriages to whichthe said neck-rods are connected, substantially as will be described.

Other features of my invention will be pointed out in the claims at theend of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a sufficient portion of a dress-form to enable mypresent invention to be understood, the lower part of the standard beingbroken out, the wings being in section, while the front half of the bustor shoulders is supposed to be omitted. Fig. 2 is a top or plan View ofthe upper portion of the form represented in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a planview of Fig. 1 with the shoulder or bust portion removed, the standardbeing in section. Fig. at is an enlarged detail of the neck portion ofthe form with part of the shoulder or bust in section at the right. Fig.5 is a sectional detail of the upper part of the form in the line 01;,Fig. 4; Fig. 6, a plan view of the cam employed in the neck of the formfor expanding the shoulder or bust portion.

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7 is an enlarged detail of the form, showing the arms carrying theskirt-wings, and the means for supporting and adjusting the said arms.Fig. 8 is a partial section in the line .23 of Fig. -7. Fig. 9 isadetail showing in plan view the cam employed to expand and contract thelower part of the form, the said cam being located in the waist of theform. Fig. 10 shows a modified form of cam which may be used; and Fig.11, an under side view of one of .the cap-plates, showing the shoes inplace.

The standard ct, preferably of metal, will in practice have a suitablefoot orf'eet to rest upon the floor. This standard has screwed to it bya suitable set-screw, as a, the hub of a grooved cam-plate a the saidhub in practice preferably having inserted within ita sleeve, as I),through which the said screw extendsto impinge against the standard a.This too sleeve above the cam-plate a is provided with a shoulder orcollar, as b, which serves to keep down in proper position a cap-plate bhaving several radial slots, as 2, the said capplate and groovedcam-plate being rotatable one with relation to the other about the saidsleeve. The cap-plate at its under side below the slots thereon has lips40 (see Fig. 11) to receive and guide the shoes 0. The upper side ofeach like-grooved eam-plate a and 071 (shown separately in Figs. 9 and(3) has a groove made as a scroll, it starting from the central part ofthe cam-plate and passing around and around the same substantially toits edge.

Each shoe 0 is fitted to slide in guideways formed by lips 40, (see Fig.11,) projecting from the under side of the cap-plate b each shoe havinga stud or pin, as c, the upper part of which enters a carriage, as d, towhich is connected all the arms 9 of each set of wings g to be movedwith the said carriage. These studs or pins 0 are free to play in theslots 2 of the cap-plate, and below the shoes the said studs or pinsenter the groove or grooves of the cam-plate, according to whether thesaid cam-plate has one groove or more than one groove. By permitting thestuds or pins to enter the groove or grooves of the cam-plate the saidcarriages, when the cam-plate or capplate is rotated one. with relationto the othe about the standard, are moved radially toward and from thesaid standard to expand or contract the dress-form.

The wings g, composed preferably of wire and shaped substantially asshown, depend from the like arms g, and the said arms, herein supposedto be of wire, are connected in suitable manner with the said carriages,as by the studs or pins 0, the said arms being kept separated from eachother for any desired or proper distance by entering slots in theupturned or flanged outer ends d of the said carriages (I. The innerends of the said arms 9 are herein represented as bent or provided witheyes which fit over the pins or studs 0, or they may fit any suitablepin or stud extended above the carriage, so long as the said arms areconnected with and so as to move in unison with the said carriages. Theupturned or flanged part (1 of the carriages d are herein represented asof segmental form.

Ihave herein shown four arms 9' connected to each stud 0; but I may usea greater or less number of arms or wings wit-h each carriage, accordingto the number of wings desired in each group of wings, and the distanceapart of the arms will depend upon'the distance apart of the slots inthe flanged parts (1 in which the said arms are dropped or laid.

In case of accident to any one or more arms or wings they may be readilyremoved from the form and new ones substituted, or Wings of other shapemay be readily substituted.

I have shown each wing as having an upwardly-extended finger, as 3,(represented best in Fig. 8.) These fingers serve to receive sockets oreyes 4, preferably of metal, secured in suitable manner to the shoulderor bust portion h of the form. The shoulder or bust portion is hereinrepresented as composed of four pieces, preferably of papier-mach orpaper,or other suitable or usual material. The upper ends of the bust orshoulder portions have loops or eyes, as 5, (see Figs. 4 and 5,) whichreceive, as herein represented ,the downturned ends of neck-rods m,composed preferably of wire, each neck-rod having its inner end bent toform an eye to embrace a pin or stud, as m, erected upon theneck-carriages m interposed between the slotted cap-plate m and thegrooved cam m The said cam m and cap-plate m surround a pipe h loose onthe standard a and resting loosely on a collar a secured to the red bymeans of a suitable set-screw m, the small pipe 7L8 having preferably ahead n, and a collar 7 is screwed into or secured in other suitablemanner to the cam-grooved plate we, so that the cam may be rotated bythe said pipe while the cap-plate coni iected to the shoulder portionsremains at rest. The pins or studs m, as described of the pins or studs0, are also extended through a shoe, the shoes in the neck of the formbeing marked p and thence into the grooves of the neck-cam m The cam mthe disk m", the pin or stud m, shoe p and the carriages m aresubstantially the same as the parts shown and previously described asemployed at the Waist of the form to provide for adjustment of thatpart, and by rotating either the cam-plate 'm or the slotted plate m thecarriages m may be adjusted readily to expand or contract the upper partof the shoulder or bust portion of the form.

Referring to Fig. 6, it will be seen that the cam m as described of thecam a", has a scroll-shaped groove.

vent the rotation of the wings and slotted cap-plate about the standard,except when the form is to be expanded or contracted; but with thescroll-cam the locking device will not be required.

The form with the wings may be readily rotated about the standardwithout expanding or contracting the same; but by engaging the upper endof the pipe h in one hand and rotating the form, the cap-plates rotatingwith the form and about the standard causes the pins or studs 0 and m totravel in the camgrooves and expand or contract the form according tothe direction of rotation.

I do not intend to limit my invention to the exact number of cam-groovedplates employed in the form or to the exact shape of the grooves inthesaid cams.

I claimj 1. In a dress-form, the standard, a grooved cam-plate thereon,an independent slotted cap-plate, a series of carriages having studs andshoes to be actuated by the said .grooved cam-plate, combined with aseries of arms arranged in groups and having depending wings attachedthereto, the said arms being c011- nected with the said carriages, tooperate substantially as described.

2. In a dress-form, the combination of the following instrumentalities,viz: the standard, the grooved cam-plate a an independent slottedcap-plate co-operating therewith, a series of carriages, and connectedstuds acted upon by said cam-plate, a series of wings having armsconnected to and made movable with the said carriages, and the bust orshoulder section connectedwith the said wings, a series of neck-rods, aseries of neck-carriages to which the said neckarods are connected, anda slotted cam-plate, as m, and a cap-plate, as m to actuate the saidneck-carriages, substantiallyas described, 7

3. In a dress-form, the standard, the carriage notched at one end andprovided with a stud, a shoe connected to thesaid stud, and a series ofwings having arms also connected to the said carriage, combined with agrooved cam-plate and a slotted cap-plate, to operate substantially asdescribed.

4;. In a dress-form, a grooved cam-plate, a slotted cap-plate providedwith radial guideways, a series of shoes placed in the said guideways, aseries of studs carried by the said shoes, and a series of carriagesconnected with the said studs and having a series of holding-notches,combined with a series of wings having arms connected to and keptseparated at the proper distances apart by the said carriages,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my nam e to this specification in thepresence of two sub- GEO. W. GREGORY, B. DEWAR.

